Brain Tumors

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Background information on Brain Tumors

A brain tumor is any intracranial mass created by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells either normally found in the brain itself: neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue, blood vessels), in the cranial nerves (myelin producing cells Schwann cells), in the brain envelopes (meninges), skull, pituitary and pineal gland, or spread from cancers primarily located in other organs (metastatic tumors).

Primary (true) brain tumors are commonly located in the posterior cranial fossa in children and in the anterior two-thirds of the cerebral hemispheres in adults, although they can affect any part of the brain.

In the United States in the year 2000, it was estimated that there were 16,500 new cases of brain tumors, which accounted for 1.4% of all cancers, 2.4% of all cancer deaths, and 20%–25% of pediatric cancers. Ultimately, it is estimated that there are 13,000 deaths/year as a result of brain tumors.
News Articles on Brain Tumors



Duke first to use new tumor machine  -  26 Mar 2008
abc11tv.com,While battling two brain tumors, he considers himself lucky to have the technology available so close to his home. "I was amazed that I was able to get the

Brain tumor survivor starts group to share experiences  -  26 Mar 2008
Edison Sentinel,Rosenthal's story starts at the age of 6, but it took participating in the Have a Chance Walk to Fight Brain Tumors in 2006 in New York City,

Radiologists Use Special MRI To Identify Brain Cancer Early  -  26 Mar 2008
Science Daily (press release)Low-grade gliomas are primary brain tumors that grow slowly over several years. Eventually, almost all low-grade gliomas progress to high-grade gliomas,

Wildcats Host Pair of Nationally Ranked Opponents in Georgetown ...  -  26 Mar 2008
CSTV.com,Both the Wildcats and Hoyas have "adopted" children diagnosed with brain tumors (NU with 13-year old Jaclyn and Georgetown with 16-year old Alli) and have

City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns"  -  26 Mar 2008
SlashdotIt also depends on the power level and the frequency. by T-Bone-T (1048702) You say that there are links between cellphone use and brain tumors but it seems

Scans spot hidden tumors in rare cancer syndrome  -  26 Mar 2008
Medicexchange,...including sarcomas, breast cancer, leukemia, brain tumors, and many more common cancers at unusually early ages, including childhood.

Child's death: Mother an apparent follower of online ministry  -  26 Mar 2008
Wausau Daily Herald,...heal her illness through prayer had participated in a Web site that shares stories of healing maladies ranging from brain tumors to worn vehicle tires.

Michael S. Solar, 36, Oswego, formerly of Watertown  -  26 Mar 2008
Watertown Daily Times,He had been ill for a long time with recurring brain tumors. A memorial service will be held at 2 pm Saturday at the Life Church of the Nazarene,

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Coastal Post,2008) by Austrian Dr. Gerd Oberfeld (EMFacts 2008) showed a 23-fold increase in breast cancer and a 121-fold increase in brain tumors for those who lived

Vion Pharmaceuticals Receives Nasdaq Notice  -  26 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),Clinical trials of Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) with temozolomide in brain tumors, and with stem cell transplantation in advanced hematologic malignancies,

Jurors see shaky interview in murder case  -  26 Mar 2008
Napa Valley Register,Taylor replied that he is schizophrenic and has two brain tumors. “I took medicine but it didn’t help me, so I stopped,� he said. Several times during the

Miracle League season opens this week  -  26 Mar 2008
Greenville News,Already, children ages 3 to 19 with disabilities ranging from autism to brain tumors, play baseball every Saturday morning, cheered on by parents,

SCI Real Estate Investments Joins City of Hope to Fight Cancer  -  26 Mar 2008
PR Newswire (press release),Last year's event's proceeds benefited City of Hope's Dr. Karen Aboody to further her research using gene therapy to treat primary and metastic brain tumors

MRI: A Window To Genetic Properties Of Brain Tumors  -  Mar 24, 2008
Science Daily (press release)24, 2008) — Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through

Special MRI Identifies Brain Cancer Early  -  Mar 24, 2008
Ivanhoe,Researchers in London find perfusion MRI shows changes in blood volume in the brain that often come before brain tumors turn cancerous.

Oncolin Therapeutics Provides a Company Overview  -  Mar 25, 2008
Business Wire (press release),The tumors most affected by this mechanism are brain tumors, but it also addresses a variety of tumors that metastasize to the brain such as breast cancer.

Henican: Brain surgeon pushes scanning for tumors  -  Feb 26, 2008
Newsday,..."How did brain tumors get left off the list? With a simple, low-cost screen, we can tell you if you have a brain tumor or not.

Breast Cancer Subtypes Linked To Survival From Secondary Brain Tumors  -  Feb 27, 2008
Science Daily (press release)ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2008) — Screening breast cancers for three receptors could help doctors predict the likely survival of patients with brain metastases

Brain Tumor – Types With Their Treatments  -  Mar 20, 2008
Los Angeles Chronicle,Brain tumors can be benign, with no cancer cells, or malignant, with cancer cells that grow quickly. Alternative treatments have not been shown to cure

UP BEAT: Taking charity work to extreme  -  Mar 23, 2008
The News-Press,His type of tumor, a pediatric low grade astrocytoma, is one of the most common forms of brain tumors among children but gets very few research dollars,

After losing daughter, Wayne couple raises money for cancer research  -  Mar 23, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer,Miriam's Foundation money is "critical" because it allows doctors at CHOP to build a body of knowledge about the unique qualities of brain tumors in

Phoenix news briefs  -  Mar 19, 2008
Arizona Republic,Interactive brain-tumor investigators in the Neuro-Oncology Research Laboratory are studying brain tumors. The goal of the laboratory is to develop an

Advanced scans could distinguish brain tumors from other damage  -  Mar 7, 2008
Johns Hopkins News-Letter,This study could allow for non-invasive diagnosis of brain tumors. The group used two similar diagnostic tests, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic

Doctoral student battles lung cancer, four brain tumors (3/5/08)  -  Mar 5, 2008
LSU The Reveille,Vickey Barrett, social work doctoral student, was diagnosed with four brain tumors and lung cancer Jan. 5. "It was like this curtain just closed," she said,

A Viral Attack against Brain Tumors  -  Mar 2, 2008
MIT Technology Review,Using time-lapse laser imaging, the team watched vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) rapidly home in on brain tumors, selectively killing cancerous cells in

UCLA Neuro-Oncology Program to host 8th Annual Brain Tumor ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Emediawire (press release),...speak about the latest treatments for brain tumors, how brain tumors work and issues related to quality of life, nutrition and mental health.

LS woman receives volunteer of the year award  -  Mar 21, 2008
Lee's Summit Journal,Kierstin has suffered from seizures as a result of the brain tumors - as many as 50 a day, Amy said. In her short life, Kierstin has suffered from four

Teacher suspect school conditions to blame for brain tumors  -  Feb 29, 2008
AZFamily,TEMPE -- Eight Tempe teachers who have been diagnosed with benign brain tumors said condition at their school might be partially to be blame.

Protein Protects Embryonic Stem Cells' Versatility And Self-renewal  -  Mar 23, 2008
Science Daily (press release)..."We found that REST is a critical factor in this group of children's brain tumors," Majumder said, "and that its major function is to keep a group of

Breast Cancer Subtypes Predict Brain Tumors  -  Mar 2, 2008
Ivanhoe,...(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- One third of breast cancer patients whose cancer metastasizes, or spreads, will develop brain cancer.

Mouse Model Tightly Matches Pediatric Tumor Syndrome, Will Speed ...  -  Mar 1, 2008
Science Daily (press release)1, 2008) — Frustrated by the slow pace of new drug development for a condition that causes pediatric brain tumors, a neurologist at Washington University

Parents criticize district on mold  -  Mar 21, 2008
Arizona Republic,With a string of teachers and students - some current, some former - who say they are battling brain tumors, migraines, allergies and other illnesses,

A Welcome Infection  -  Mar 10, 2008
Discovery ChannelThe research, which builds on previous attempts to use viruses to treat cancer, could eventually treat otherwise fatal brain tumors in people,

Women's Lacrosse: 'Friends of Jaclyn' challenge this week  -  Mar 25, 2008
Inside Lacrosse (press release),...benefit the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, a charitable organization, created and dedicating itself to raise public awareness of pediatric brain tumors.

Nanotechnology Advances Brain Cancer Detection and Therapy  -  Mar 3, 2008
AZoNano.com,...its development of an iron oxide nanoparticle targeted to glioblastoma cells and shows that brain tumors in animal models take up these nanoparticles.

New Drug for Brain Cancer Too Dangerous for Pediatric Patients  -  Mar 10, 2008
Washington Post,The new red flag concerns a signal transduction inhibitor (STI) medication known as "HhAntag", a drug developed to treat medulloblastoma brain tumors by

Potential Brain Cancer Drug For Children May Damage Bones  -  Mar 10, 2008
Science Daily (press release)10, 2008) — A novel drug that fully eliminated brain tumors from mice in a dramatic 2004 study has shown a darker side--causing permanent bone damage in

Multiple 'Targeted' Drugs  -  Mar 11, 2008
Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists,He noted that in the laboratory study using cancer cell lines and fresh specimens of brain tumors, three or more kinase inhibitors were needed to quell the

Isotope astatine-211 To Prolong Lives Of Brain Tumor Patients  -  Feb 26, 2008
TopCancerNews.com,In a study to determine safe dosages of the isotope astatine-211 for treating patients with recurring brain tumors, researchers were pleasantly surprised to

UMass Women's Lax Closes Nonconference Slate Against New Hampshire  -  Mar 24, 2008
Lacrosse Magazine Online,In conjunction with the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, which works to help children afflicted with pediatric brain tumors, UMass adopted Lexie last year,

Neurosurgeon finds a new home in Bowling Green  -  Mar 24, 2008
Bowling Green Daily News,As a neurosurgeon, Wood deals with various brain and spinal problems, including back and neck pain, disc disorders and brain tumors.

Dying Girl Pleads to See Imprisoned Father, Prison Denies Request  -  Mar 20, 2008
WLTX.com,Cancerous brain tumors have taken over, and Jayci moved into a Lincoln, Nebraska hospice center this week. Her mother can only watch as her daughter slowly

Athletics: Tug McGraw Foundation Announces Team McGraw ...  -  Feb 27, 2008
RunnersWeb,Brain tumors are serious business, but the spirit and musicality of Elite Racing’s Rock ‘n’ Roll marathons also reflect the fun and quality of life we seek

Promising cancer drug may endanger child's bones  -  Mar 10, 2008
Reuters...before moving ahead to clinical trials," Curran said in a statement. Medulloblastomas account for about one in five childhood brain tumors. Continued

Cutting-edge cancer treatment coming to St. Mary's  -  Mar 14, 2008
Midland Daily News,Unlike traditional radiosurgery that delivers a high dose of radiation to brain tumors while using a frame to prevent patient movement, the CyberKnife

Family donates hair in memory of lost friend  -  Mar 19, 2008
Austin Herald,...when he returned home that day that he felt guilty for the brief confusion about his friend, who would die weeks later of inoperable brain tumors.

The Winchester Star  -  Mar 10, 2008
The Winchester Star,For his 16th birthday, he wants to help find a cure for pediatric brain tumors. That’s what this is all about." Over 100 students paid to attend the dance

"I consider every day a bonus day"  -  Mar 17, 2008
6abc.com,He has survived numerous health scares, including 2 rounds with benign brain tumors, a double heart bypass, and a bout with Hodgkin's Disease,

"We want to find a cure"  -  Mar 8, 2008
Marshalltown Times Republican,...brain tumor January 2007 and her family is organizing a 5K run and walk set for May 10 to raise money for research on Pediatric Low Grade Brain Tumors.

High-tech Interrogations May Promote Abuse Of Detainees  -  Mar 18, 2008
Science Daily (press release)Neurosurgeons routinely use it to scan for brain tumors, and to diagnose and treat various disorders of the central nervous system. But in recent times,



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